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November 4, 2009
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:00:24 +0800
Subject: [H-ASIA:] ESF-JSPS Conference on 'Contact Zones of Empires in Asia and
Europe'
H-ASIA
Nov 4 2009
ESF-JSPS Conference on 'Contact Zones of Empires in Asia and Europe'
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From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal <clemoal@esf.org>
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Contact Zones of Empires in Asia and Europe: Complexity, Causality and
Contingency
ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers
27 February - 4 March 2010
Centennial Hall, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
www.esf.org/conferences/10327
Chaired by: Lise Hannestad - University of Aarhus, Department of Classical
Archaeology, Aarhus, DK & Nishitani Tadashi -
Kyushu Historical Museum, Kyushu University, JP
This conference seeks new approaches to common topics concerning social,
cultural and political complexity on the fringes of empires in Europe and
East Asia, namely, the Hellenistic and Roman, and successive Chinese
empires. A special focus of the conference will be on interactions between
empires and their peripheries, and on contact zones. The temporal coverage
spans from the formative phase of the earliest empires in the concerned
regions up to A.D.1000. The purpose of the conference is to seek new avenues
for research collaboration in cutting-edge research, which is why early
career researchers are particularly welcome. The conference will bring
together archaeologists and anthropologists, philologists and linguists, art
historians and historians, specialists of material culture and religion,
experts on historical climate change and commercial exchange and many more.
An underlying, unifying feature of presentations, discussions and follow-up
will be the methodological challenges of interdisciplinary research in the
humanities, which is moving towards a global research enterprise.
The late 20th century had witnessed increased sophistication in theory and
methodology when dealing with the emergence and development of civilisations
and empires and their relations with surrounding communities. Whether in
Europe or in East Asia, notably in Japan, the study of symbiotic
relationships between empires and surrounding communities has been
prominent. With the rich archaeological and written record to be examined,
many important case studies have been produced. Data on various
environmental factors has increasingly informed our understanding of the
forces underlying trajectories of socio-cultural, economic and political
development. This conference aims at synthesising these strands of research,
aiming at a comprehensive reconstruction of the processes and causes of the
emergence and development of social complexity and state-formation on the
fringes of the empires, thereby setting the research agenda for
collaborative research for the future.
Subtopics will include: 1. Empires and their peripheries: interactions,
interdependences and transformations; 2. Environment and food supply; 3.
Ethnic identities, language, population movements and social mobility; 4.
Networks of interaction, production and exchange; 5. Ritual, symbolism and
cosmology; 6. Empires and their contested peripheries in long-term and
global perspectives.
Invited Speakers will include:
. Carmen Alfaro - Valencia U., ES
. Michael Alram - Kunsthistorisches Museum, AT
. Toennes Bekker-Nielsen - U. of Southern Denmark, DK
. Chris Gosden - Oxford U., UK
. Lise Hannestad - U. of Aarhus, DK
. Benjamin Isaac - Tel Aviv U., IL
. Askold Ivantchik - The Russian Academy of Sciences, RU
. Rüdiger Klein - ALLEA, NL
. Ray Laurence - U. of Birmingham, UK
. Takehiko Matsugi - Okayama U., JP
. Andreas Mehl - U. Halle-Wittenberg, DE
. Kazuo Miyamoto - Kyushu U., JP
. Koji Mizoguchi - Kyushu U., JP
. Hiroki Oota - Tokyo U., JP
. Tatsuhiko Seo - Chuo U., JP
. Nicholas Sims-Williams - School of Oriental and African Studies, London,
UK
. Yoshiyuki Tanaka - Kyushu U., JP
. Mayke Wagner - DAI, Berlin, DE
. Verena Winiwarter - U. of Klagenfurt, AT
. Yusuke Yokoyama - Tokyo U., JP
. Minoru Yoneda - Tokyo U., JP
Full conference programme and application form accessible online from
www.esf.org/conferences/10327.
Closing date: 5 November 2009.
ESF Contact: Jean Kelly - jkelly@esf.org
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), in
partnership with the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
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Links of Interest:
The Role of the State in Population Movements: The Circumpolar North and
Other Periphery Regions - BOREAS Final Conferences, 26-28 October 2009,
Arktikum building, Rovaniemi, Finland
This conference will analyse how states in the North have influenced
settlement patterns in their remote peripheries and how northern residents
respond to state regulation measures. These findings from the North will be
compared with evidence from other 'periphery' regions in the world. The
analyses should contribute to our general theoretical understanding of in
voluntary and forced movements, relocations, resettlements and
displacements. More on BOREAS EUROCORES Programme - Histories from the
North: environments, movements, narratives.
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